I think the renaming makes good sense. "Public policy" is the standard
label for the category in which the issues here belong.
Karl
Den 8/7/2015 kl. 10:42 PM, skrev Stephen LaPorte:
Hi all,
I wanted to make a proposal for the list: let's rename the Advocacy
Advisory Group (advocacy_advisors(a)lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:advocacy_advisors@lists.wikimedia.org>) to
publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org
<mailto:publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org>. It's not a big change, but
I think that it's more accurate since the list includes expert
discussions of public policy that are not always limited to advocacy
actions.
The proposal will only affect the name -- we will continue to keep the
same focus and great discussions. We set up this mailing list nearly
three years ago to provide an open venue for Wikimedians and others
supporting the Wikimedia mission to discuss public policy and
legislative developments around the world that could affect our
movement's work. The Wikimedia Foundation also sends proposals to this
list to get feedback on particular policy issues, following the
Wikimedia Foundation Policy and Political Association Guideline
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal/Foundation_Policy_and_Political_Assoc…).
I've enjoyed all of the great discussions with the Wikimedia
community, and particularly appreciate the great updates from the EU
prepared by Dimi and others.
If there are no concerns about changing the name, we can set it up
next Friday (August 14). We will update the Policy and Political
Association Guideline to continue to refer to this list.
As Yana, Geoff, and I presented at Wikimania
(
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Amplify_Free_Knowledge…),
we are also working on a site communicating significant public policy
positions. That site will also invite people to sign up to this list
to discuss public policy issues that affect the Wikimedia projects.
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